Pad for horses  feet



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S. T. BANE.

PAD Ton HORSES.PEET. No. 268,605. Patented Dee. 5.1882.

. v UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SETH T. BANE, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

PAD FOR HORSES FEET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 268,605, dated December 5, 1882. Application filed October 12, 1882. (No model.)

eled upwardly, of a pad having its outer edge beveled to fitthe bevel on the shoe, and adapted to fill the whole space inside of the shoe and I press equally upon all parts of the sole of the horses foot and on the frog.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective with part of the shoe broken away, and Fig. 2 is a cross-section on line w 00, Fig. 1.

A represents a horseshoe having its inner surface beveled, as shown at B, Fig. 2.

0 represents a pad of soft elastic material, preferably vulcanized rubber, having its outer edge beveled, as shown at E. Pad 0 is made large enough to completely fill the space inside of shoe A, so that when crowded into position, as shown in Fig. 1, beveled edge E will fit closely into and under the beveled side B of shoe A. The upper surface of pad 0 is so shaped as to fitthe under side of the horses foot. A piece of iron or steel, F, (shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1,) is embedded in pad (3 I as near the heel thereof as practicable to stiffen that portion of the pad, and should be long enough to reach under the bevel of shoe A on both sides when the pad is in position. A portion of the pad underneath the frog of the horses foot may be thickened, if desired, as shown at D.

To put the pad in position the edges of the heel thereof are placed under the bevel on shoe A, and the padis then crowded toward the heel of said shoe as far as it will go. The toe of the pad is then compressed until-the beveled edge thereof will spring under the bevel in the toe of shoe A. To remove the pad a tool is inserted between the toe of pad 0 and shoe A. and the pad pried upward and backward until its beveled edge clears shoe A,

when the pad can'be drawn forward and taken out. I

I am aware that a fro -pad is not new, and that pads have been patented and used which have been either nailed to the horses foot under the shoe or held in position by metal clips or springs running into or under the shoe,-

but do not broadly claim any such device.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is'- 1. A frog pad of elastic material, having beveled edges adapted to fill the whole space inside of a horseshoe, in combination with a horseshoe having its inner surface beveled upwardly, substantially as herein shown and described. v

2. In combination with a horseshoe having its inner surface beveled upwardly, a frog=pad of elastic material adapted to fill the whole space within said horseshoe, having its edges beveled to. fit within the bevel on the shoe, and having its heel stiffened by a transverse piece of metalembedded in said pad, substantially as herein shown and described.

' SETH T. BANE.

, Witnesses:

SUMNER COLLINS, A. O. ANGELL. 

